Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Prohibitions re ballots, etc.

• 167 (1) No person shall

  • (a) apply for a ballot in a name that is not his or her own;

  • (b) use a forged ballot;

  • (c) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, provide a ballot to any person; or

  • (d) knowing that he or she is without authority under this Act to do so, have a ballot in his or her possession.

• Marginal note:Other prohibitions

  (2) No person shall wilfully

  • (a) alter, deface or destroy a ballot or the initials of the deputy returning officer signed on a ballot;

  • (b) put or cause to be put into a ballot box a ballot or other paper otherwise than as provided by this Act;

  • (c) take a ballot out of the polling station; or

  • (d) destroy, take, open or otherwise interfere with a ballot box or book or packet of ballots.

• Marginal note:Prohibitions — deputy returning officers

  (3) No deputy returning officer shall

  • (a) with the intent of causing the reception of a vote that should not have been cast or the non-reception of a vote that should have been cast, put his or her initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot at an election; or

  • (b) place on any ballot any writing, number or mark, with intent that the elector to whom the ballot is to be, or has been, given may be identified.